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Flights to Los Angeles

LA steals the show for sun, surf, glitz and glamour

Fly London to Los Angeles to discover the very best of the City of Angels. Home to four million, this thriving metropolis represents the zenith of Californian cornucopia, Pacific paradise, and Hollywood glamour. This cinematic city stretches for mile upon mile; on a tour, you’re as likely to take in surfers riding the waves in Santa Monica as you are culture vultures roaming the Getty Center. Book flights to Los Angeles and you’ll discover a city of many personalities, from the colourful grit of Venice Beach to the party scene of West Hollywood to the hipsters of Silver Lake. At some point during your trip – perhaps when you’re enjoying a five-star sushi dinner or sipping on world-class Californian wine – it’ll hit you: life doesn’t get much better than in La La Land. Join us in this electric, eternally captivating city; we’ll show you where to go.

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Did you know?

Given Los Angeles’s size, diversity, and colourful history, you can bet that this city has accumulated some fascinating stories over the years. From Disney trivia and Hollywood facts to the story behind one of LA’s most iconic dishes, read on for some surprising facts about Los Angeles that you probably never knew.

Walt Disney arrived in Los Angeles in 1923 with $40 in his pocket. Today, Disneyland is the third most visited theme park in the world after Orlando’s Magic Kingdom (Disney World) and Tokyo Disneyland.

When the budget for the 1963 film Cleopatra got out of hand, 20th Century Fox sold off close to 300 acres of its backlot to fund it. That area has since been transformed into the modern-day Century City.

Founded by Spanish settlers in 1781, Los Angeles was originally called “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles sobre del Río Porciúncula”. It’s not hard to see why that name was eventually shortened.

Two downtown Los Angeles restaurants claim to be the birthplace of the French dip sandwich: Cole’s and Philippe the Original. Many Angelenos have a favourite; we recommend sampling both and deciding for yourself.

Adjacent to the city’s famous La Brea Tar Pits, an almost-complete woolly mammoth fossil was accidently discovered by construction crews in 2006. It was named “Zed.”

Get inspired

Given that the American film industry is headquartered in Hollywood, it’s hardly a surprise that Los Angeles is a movie lover’s dream town. Get your imagination stirring with these iconic Los Angeles-based films… and don’t forget about the literature and the music that this most colourful of cities has also inspired.

Books

1. Day of the Locust, Nathanael West

Hollywood disillusionment is the order of the day in this seminal novel, which follows a group of disenchanted individuals during the Great Depression.

2. Less Than Zero, Brett Easton Ellis

This novel is a journey through decadent, debauched, and degenerate Los Angeles, and was published when its author was just 21 years old.

3. Post Office, Charles Bukowski

A semi-autobiographical tale of work in an LA post office, this novel introduces anti-hero Henry Chinaski to the world.

4. Gold Fame Citrus, Claire Vaye Watkins

A novel that imagines what Los Angeles will look like in the near future, when the water has run out and the Hollywood mansions have been abandoned.

5. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Mike Davis

This compelling work of non-fiction explores the origins of Los Angeles through a sociological lens, with a focus on the city’s economic and cultural growth.

6. Tropic of Orange, Karen Tei Yamashita

A colourful mash-up of magic realism, post-modernism, speculative fiction – and more – this ambitious novel includes seven different twisting plotlines.

7. The White Boy Shuffle, Paul Beatty

Written by poet-turned-novelist Paul Beatty, this coming-of-age story follows an African-American boy as he moves from Santa Monica to West Los Angeles.

8. A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood

Heralded as one of the greatest 20th century novels about gay life, A Single Man follows a day in the life of a British professor in Los Angeles.